conflagrant

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Scrabble points
17
Words With Friends
22
Letters
11
Pronunciation
/kɒnˈfleɪɡɹənt/

Definition of conflagrant

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Brilliantly burning; of or resembling a conflagration; intensely blazing.
    “I would have cast me into molten glass To cool me, when I enter'd; so intense Rag'd the conflagrant mass.”
    “Have you beheld the flashes from conflagrant dwellings, burnishing with angry beams the high vault of heaven? Ah! and did you descry the dear form of infant woe, and catch, with listening ear, the last bitter groan which escaped the angry billows of the ocean of flames?”
    “I proceed to draw near to the metropolis, as I do not remember being struck with anything else, except with the country north of Birmingham, which might in one place be designated, the region of the ten thousand furnaces; which has a forlorn look of desolation and wretchedness in day light, but at night must no doubt assume an aspect of great conflagrant magnificence.”
    “Leaped at a bound, aud smote him: hissed at once./The grisly monster’s heads enormous, scorched/In one conflagrant blaze.”

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Etymology

From the Latin cōnflagrāns (oblique stem: cōnflagrant-), present active participle of cōnflagrō.

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